Subject: Re: SCSI disk problems
To: None <wysoft@c481444-a.bremtn1.wa.home.com>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@tappedin.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/31/2001 16:58:52
>Recebido-para: <entropy@tappedin.com>
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jeff Wyman <wysoft@c481444-a.bremtn1.wa.home.com>
>cc: wysoft@c481444-a.bremtn1.wa.home.com, port-sparc@netbsd.org
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>I had tried reassigning the blocks, but the disk would always complain
>about not being able to read a certain block even after I had reassigned
>it. It was always the same block, and each error stepped up one block.
>
>> Try reassigning the bad blocks.  E.g. if it complains about block
>> 12345 on device sd0:
>> 
>> scsisctl /dev/rsd0c reassign 12345
>> 
>> --
>> entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.

Pardon my density, but I don't understand your last sentence at all.
Did it keep complaining about the block you had just reassigned?  Or
did you fix one block, and then it complained about another block?

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entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.